System and method for internet publishing

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for internet publishing. In some aspects, the systems and methods may be implemented by software designed for users such as, for example, small businesses, to manage and implement an online digital strategy. A digital web-based platform, for example, may be used to establish and expand the online presence of a brand. In some aspects, the systems and methods may be implemented to publish, syndicate, and monetize content in an automated and seamless manner from a single interface as well as to monitor and respond to information relevant to such content.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer implemented internet publishing platform comprising:
 one or more computer implemented servers with associated non-transient computer readable memory comprising:   data storage space resident on non-transitory computer readable media configured to define a plurality of digital spaces available to a corresponding plurality of platform subscribers;   wherein the servers comprise processing circuitry configured for operation with one or more software modules stored on non-transitory computer readable media, wherein the software modules comprise instructions that cause the processing circuitry to:
 present user interfaces to a plurality of platform subscribers that allow access by platform subscribers to their corresponding digital spaces for uploading information and content to their corresponding digital spaces, displaying selected uploaded content to visitors of the digital spaces, publishing uploaded content to selected destinations on the internet; and receiving information and content from the digital spaces; 
 present at least one user interface to at least one master subscriber different from the platform administrator, wherein the user interface allows at least some control by a master subscriber over a defined subset of the digital spaces of the platform subscribers, the control allowing at least one of preventing the display of selected uploaded content to visitors of the digital spaces and preventing the publication of uploaded content to selected destinations on the internet. 
   
     
     
         2 . The computer implemented internet publishing platform of  claim 1 , wherein the at least some control comprises selectively enabling and disabling options provided on user interfaces presented to subscribers associated with the defined subset of digital spaces. 
     
     
         3 . The computer implemented internet publishing platform of  claim 1 , wherein the at least some control comprises viewing uploaded content on each of the subset of digital spaces for approval. 
     
     
         4 . The computer implemented internet publishing platform of  claim 1 ,  2 , or  3 , wherein each subscriber associated with a digital space of the defined subset of digital spaces is contractually affiliated with the master subscriber. 
     
     
         5 . A computer implemented internet publishing platform comprising:
 one or more computer implemented servers with associated non-transient computer readable memory comprising:   data storage space resident on non-transitory computer readable media configured to define a plurality of digital spaces available to a corresponding plurality of platform subscribers;   wherein the servers comprise processing circuitry configured for operation with one or more software modules stored on non-transitory computer readable media, wherein the software modules comprise instructions that cause the processing circuitry to:
 present user interfaces to a plurality of platform subscribers that allow access by platform subscribers to their corresponding digital spaces for uploading information and content to their corresponding digital spaces, displaying selected uploaded content to visitors of the digital spaces, publishing uploaded content to selected destinations on the internet; and receiving information and content from the digital spaces; 
 determine, for at least some platform subscribers, an amount of at least one of uploaded content items, uploaded video items, uploaded photos, uploaded podcasts, media interactions, consumer reviews received, and consumer offers made; and 
 provide a reward to at least some platform subscribers based at least in part on the determined amount. 
   
     
     
         6 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 5 , wherein the reward comprises ranking results of platform visitor search queries for display to the platform visitor based at least in part on the determined amount. 
     
     
         7 . A computer implemented internet publishing platform comprising:
 one or more computer implemented servers with associated non-transient computer readable memory comprising:   data storage space resident on non-transitory computer readable media configured to define a plurality of digital spaces available to a corresponding plurality of platform subscribers;   wherein the servers comprise processing circuitry configured for operation with one or more software modules stored on non-transitory computer readable media, wherein the software modules comprise instructions that cause the processing circuitry to:
 present user interfaces to a plurality of platform subscribers that allow access by platform subscribers to their corresponding digital spaces for uploading information and content to their corresponding digital spaces, displaying selected uploaded content to visitors of the digital spaces, publishing uploaded content to selected destinations on the internet; and receiving information and content from the digital spaces; 
 wherein the user interfaces are configured to allow subscribers to push uploaded content to different websites having URLs associated with the subscribers and that are hosted on computer implemented servers different from the computer implemented servers hosting the digital spaces so as to populate and generate HTML pages of subscriber websites with content published through their respective digital spaces. 
   
     
     
         8 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 7 , wherein the user interfaces are configured to allow selective website link sharing between different websites of different subscribers. 
     
     
         9 . A computer implemented internet publishing platform comprising:
 one or more computer implemented servers with associated non-transient computer readable memory comprising:   data storage space resident on non-transitory computer readable media configured to define a plurality of digital spaces available to a corresponding plurality of platform subscribers;   wherein the servers comprise processing circuitry configured for operation with one or more software modules stored on non-transitory computer readable media, wherein the software modules comprise instructions that cause the processing circuitry to:
 present user interfaces to a plurality of platform subscribers that allow access by platform subscribers to their corresponding digital spaces for uploading information and content to their corresponding digital spaces, displaying selected uploaded content to visitors of the digital spaces, publishing uploaded content to selected destinations on the internet; and receiving information and content from the digital spaces; 
 automatically distribute content uploaded by the subscriber to network destinations pre-selected by the subscriber using the user interfaces prior to uploading. 
   
     
     
         10 . A computer implemented internet publishing platform comprising:
 one or more computer implemented servers with associated non-transient computer readable memory comprising:   data storage space resident on non-transitory computer readable media configured to define a plurality of digital spaces available to a corresponding plurality of platform subscribers;   wherein the servers comprise processing circuitry configured for operation with one or more software modules stored on non-transitory computer readable media, wherein the software modules comprise instructions that cause the processing circuitry to:
 present user interfaces to a plurality of platform subscribers that allow access by platform subscribers to their corresponding digital spaces for uploading information and content to their corresponding digital spaces, displaying selected uploaded content to visitors of the digital spaces, publishing uploaded content to selected destinations on the internet; and receiving information and content from the digital spaces; 
 automatically modify at least some uploaded content to include semantic markup according to one or more industry standard micro formats. 
   
     
     
         11 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 10 , wherein the associated non-transient computer readable memory stores format information for a plurality of micro formats for use when uploaded content is automatically modified. 
     
     
         12 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 11 , wherein the instructions cause the processing circuitry to integrate at least some items of the uploaded content into separate web pages available to search engines connected to the internet. 
     
     
         13 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 12 , wherein the instructions cause the processing circuitry to integrate each item of the content into a separate web page available to search engines connected to the internet. 
     
     
         14 . A method of publishing user created content to a wide-area-network comprising:
 receiving a plurality of content items from a user in a corresponding plurality of content formats;   integrating each item of the content into a separate web page available to search engines connected to the wide area network.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14 , additionally comprising sending each item of content to a user selected destination on the wide-area network. 
     
     
         16 . A computer implemented internet publishing platform comprising:
 one or more computer implemented servers with associated non-transient computer readable memory comprising:
 data storage space resident on non-transitory computer readable media configured to define a plurality of digital spaces available to a corresponding plurality of platform subscribers; 
   wherein the servers comprise processing circuitry configured for operation with one or more software modules stored on non-transitory computer readable media, wherein the software modules comprise instructions that cause the processing circuitry to:
 present user interfaces to platform subscriber computers coupled to the internet that allow access to the digital spaces for uploading information and content to the digital spaces and for receiving information and content from the digital spaces; 
 receive and store content in a plurality of media formats received from the plurality of platform subscribers; 
 integrate items of content received from the plurality of platform subscribers into separate web pages available to at least some search engines coupled to the internet; 
 search at least portions of the internet for information related to at least one of the plurality of subscribers, to store the information in one or more of the digital spaces, and to present the information to at least one subscriber; and 
 send items of content received from the plurality of subscribers to social media sites coupled to the internet. 
   
     
     
         17 . A computer implemented method of managing an internet presence comprising:
 accessing a data storage space over the internet;   uploading content to the data storage space;   selecting a plurality of additional destination sites on the internet for the uploaded content;   retrieving information from the data storage space collected from the internet that relates to third party access to, use of, or commentary on the uploaded content.   
     
     
         18 . The computer implemented internet publishing platform of  claim 16 , wherein the one or more servers are further configured to provide an integrated programming environment to execute one or more unique application programs. 
     
     
         19 . The computer implemented internet publishing platform of  claim 16 , wherein a user interface of a unique application program is displayed within one or more of the user interfaces presented by the one or more software modules. 
     
     
         20 . The computer implemented internet publishing platform of claim  1618 , wherein the integrated programming environment comprises an application programming interface. 
     
     
         21 . The computer implemented internet publishing platform of  claim 20 , wherein the application programming interface enables a plurality of software components to communicate with each other. 
     
     
         22 . The computer implemented internet publishing platform of  claim 20 , wherein the application programming interface enables a plurality of software components to communicate with the one or more software modules. 
     
     
         23 . The computer implemented internet publishing platform of  claim 20 , wherein the application programming interface enables at least one of the one or more unique application programs to communicate with a network. 
     
     
         24 . The computer implemented internet publishing platform of  claim 16 , further comprising a software module configured to transmit a network message to a mobile device, the network message configured to be received and processed by an Internet publishing platform specific application program executing on the mobile device. 
     
     
         25 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 16 , further comprising one or more software modules configured to create and publish a plurality of media or content types to unique web pages hosted by the Internet publishing platform. 
     
     
         26 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 25 , further comprising one or more software modules configured to add one or more data tags to the unique web pages to increase the ranking of the unique web pages by an Internet search engine. 
     
     
         27 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 16 , further comprising one or more software modules configured to publish a really simple syndication (RSS) feed in response to the addition of media or content into the digital space. 
     
     
         28 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 27 , further comprising one or more software modules configured to submit the really simple syndication feed to one or more RSS search engines in response to the addition. 
     
     
         29 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 16 , further comprising one or more software modules configured to retrieve content from a really simple syndication (RSS) feed, and store the retrieved content in the digital space. 
     
     
         30 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 16 , further comprising one or more software modules configured to make available for download a browser plugin configured to integrate with the publishing platform. 
     
     
         31 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 30 , wherein the browser plugin is further configured to collect metrics on traffic patterns or websites visited. 
     
     
         32 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 30 , wherein the browser plugin is further configured to display information indicating a digital conversation corresponding to the digital space on a user interface. 
     
     
         33 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 16 , further comprising one or more software modules configured to establish a relationship between selected subscribers, wherein sharing of information, media, content, files, contacts, conversations or connections between the selected subscribers is based, at least in part, on the relationship. 
     
     
         34 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 16 , further comprising one or more software modules configured to periodically assigning value points to a plurality of media types within the digital space based on a locality or vertical category of the digital space. 
     
     
         35 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 34 , further comprising one or more software modules configured to transmit a network message configured to cause a receiver to display at least two different media types in a single list view. 
     
     
         36 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 16 , further comprising one or more software modules configured to receive business information from a user, and to configure one or more directories, services, local map searches, mobile applications or search engines in response to receiving the business information. 
     
     
         37 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 36 , wherein business information is contact information of a subscriber. 
     
     
         38 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 16 , further comprising:
 one or more software modules configured to:
 receive information relating to a subscriber's business type, industry, category or geography; 
 determine a list of keywords based on the received information; and 
 insert the keywords or meta tags based on the keywords into content pages corresponding to the subscriber. 
   
     
     
         39 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 16 , further comprising one or more software modules configured to provide a messaging system to users of the publishing platform, the messaging system integrating messages received from a plurality of social network messaging systems. 
     
     
         40 . The computer implemented publishing platform of  claim 39 , wherein the messaging system is configured to provide a send message feature that sends a message to a plurality of destinations, the destinations hosted by a plurality of social network messaging systems.